To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science